WHNS
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Greenville/Spartanburg/Anderson, South Carolina/Asheville, North Carolina United States |
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| City | Greenville |
| Branding | Fox Carolina (general) Fox Carolina News (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 21 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | Fox |
| Owner | Meredith Corporation |
| Founded | October 27, 1978 |
| First air date | April 1, 1984 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Harry 'N Stella (Pappas) (original owners) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 21 (UHF, 1984–2009) Digital: 57 (UHF, 1995–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: Independent (1984–1988) Secondary: UPN (1995–1997) Pax TV (1998–2003) |
| Transmitter power | 160 kW |
| Height | 761.4 m |
| Facility ID | 72300 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°10′56″N 82°40′56″W / 35.18222°N 82.68222°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.foxcarolina.com |
WHNS, virtual and UHF digital channel 21, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. The station is owned by the Meredith Corporation. WHNS maintains studio facilities located on Interstate Court (just northwest of Interstate 85) in Greenville, and its transmitter is located atop Slick Rock Mountain in Transylvania County, North Carolina (five miles southeast of Brevard).
The Federal Communications Commission issued a construction permit to build a television station on UHF channel 21 in Greenville as early as 1953. Over the next quarter-century, the permit went through about a dozen owners who were unable to overcome numerous legal environmental hurdles to receive permission to build a station. Technical issues were also played a role – the Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville market is within a vast and mountainous area, UHF television signals usually do not get good reception in rugged terrain. In the meantime, Christian station WGGS used channel 21 as a low-powered relay to improve its coverage in Asheville.
After several false starts, Fresno, California-based Pappas Telecasting bought the channel 21 license in 1979. In 1981, after numerous delays, Pappas found a transmitter site in the Spartanburg area that was close enough to Greenville to meet FCC requirements which stated that a broadcast station's transmitter be located no more than 15 miles away from its city of license. Construction on the transmitter tower began in 1982.
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